Saturday, April 26, 2014

Meanwhile, the Iron Sheik has a strange obsession with Toronto mayor Rob Ford

Someone needs to remind the Sheik that wrestling, like politics, is all rigged.

US Express vs Axis of Evil

In my one experience watching WWF wrestling live, at Maple Leaf Gardens in the 80's, I did see the Iron Sheik and his partner Nikolai Volkoff lose in a battle with the "US Express" (Mike Rotundo and Barry Wyndam). It was very entertaining. Also on the bill that day was the man who would later become governor of Minnestota, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, who, like the Sheik and Volkoff, was a 'bad guy' wrestler. Ventura wrestled some patsy whose name I can't recall and used his signature move of scraping his opponent's eyeballs along the top rope of the ring.